Re: [PATCH 1/4] ptsname_r: new module

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bruno,

As I said, an *extremely* minor pedantic nit, so please take with a large
grain of salt (or three).

I'm raising two technical points here:

  1. There is a space between Mac and OS (and another space between OS and X).
  2. The X in "Mac OS X" already says 10, so it's redundant when you already
     state the version number, 10.5.

On 10 Nov 2011, at 05:39, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> Although it is common to see, e.g. Mac OS X 10.5 in writing, it's
>> redundant and technically incorrect.
> 
> Possibly. But when discussing gnulib, I want to never evoke the impression
> that gnulib could support MacOS 9 or earlier.

You can still do that and be technically correct:

  Mac OS 10.5
  Mac OS X version 10.5
  Mac OS Leopard version 10.5

I prefer the first one, it's easier to read and type.

>> or use the cat name
>> 
>>   Mac OS X Leopard
>>   Mac OS Leopard
> 
> Certainly not. In gnulib the version numbers and the order among version
> numbers is very important. And there's no natural ordering among the predator
> names "Leopard", "Panther", "Tiger" that would be easy to remember. Even
> where such an order exists, e.g. between "Hardy", "Intrepid", "Karmic", and
> "Lucid", version numbers carry more information.

Oh absolutely, but in casual conversation and text, there are fewer syllables
in "Lion" than "Mac OS X version 10.7".

Similarly, more formally you still wouldn't say 'Mac Oh Ess ten, ten point 
five',
you'd just say "Mac Oh Ess ten point five" and people would know what you meant.
I'd spell that as Mac OS 10.5, not Mac OS X 10.5.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)